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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
National
Piyush Shukla

After years of study, scientists recreated the chemistry of two deadly plants in the laboratory. The breakthrough produced a surprising pathway to new painkillers, malaria treatments, cancer drugs, and greener pest-control solutions

Plants that can kill you might soon save your life. For decades, wolfsbane and larkspur were famous only for their lethal poisons. Now, scientists have cracked their secret biological code.

In a major laboratory breakthrough, researchers mapped the exact enzymes these deadly plants use to build complex chemistry. They even reproduced parts of the pathway inside bioengineered yeast and tobacco plants.

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